“One of the great artists of the film is the focus puller.” Time for a lesson in filmmaking. As the introduction for this video explains, “moviegoers see focus racks all the time” but “they probably don’t even notice most of them.” This video essay, created by Philip Brubaker for Fandor, titled simply The Art of the Focus Pull examines the cinematography technique of “focus pulling” – or changing the focus in the middle of a shot. There’s different ways to achieve this, and the video covers a few of them, and shows plenty of examples. It also counts down three of the best focus pull shots in films, and each one of them is most certainly striking. ›››

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